/lit/ - Literature

>>6812886
>Recent developments in popular culture were arguably predicted by the French philosopher and cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard in his book, ‘America’, in which he talks about the infantilzation of society. Put simply, this is the idea that as a society, we are kept in a state of arrested development by dominant forces in order to keep us more pliant.

i read America not more than 5-6 months ago and i don't remember a word of that stuff being in it. he spends like a third of the book jerking off about the desert for christs sake, and how the americans are so miserable now that they've got it so good, how exercise is awful etc, etc. baudrillard was tsundere for america

>We are made passionate about the things that occupied us as children as a means of drawing our attentions away from the things we really should be invested in, inequality, corruption, economic injustice etc.

> things we really should be invested in, inequality, corruption, economic injustice etc.
that's....not baudrillard

>>6781515
I suspect Chinese philosophy or politics will be the hot little new meme on the board within the next year or two.

something like 'New Confucianism is literally the only relevant sociopolitical theory of contemporary times, western society and philosophy is fucked'

or 'The CPC/Mao/the Legalists did nothing wrong :^)'

probably something like that. Someone will inevitably spam Badiou.

>people on 4chan are degenerates
literally not 2007 anymore.

in any case, i don't even know what half of you would expect, none of you use tripcodes and so you have absolutely no idea of each other, and have no connection to each other. meet-ups develop through people knowing each other beforehand, through a 'community'

>>5861420
consumerism is a consequence of liberal feminism and identity politics. people wanted to be defined by what they consumed and not what they produced and had to find an identity outside of themselves. The more identity politics pushed identity the fiercer consumerism becomes.

>identity politics of taste

weird way to phrase being a consummate human being, almost as if to imply that one identifies with one's tastes or something

stirner